Getty Awards Research Grants to 15 Postdoctoral Fellows and Four Collaborative Research Teams

September 20, 2000

Los Angeles--The Getty Grant Program today announced award recipients in two research grant categories, Postdoctoral Fellowships and Collaborative Research Grants, which provide support for interpretive research in the history of art.

"The Getty provides a variety of research grants to emerging, mid-career, and senior scholars from around the world," says Deborah Marrow, director of the Getty Grant Program and dean for external relations of the J. Paul Getty Trust. "Through the Postdoctoral Fellowships and Collaborative Research Grants, we are helping to nurture new approaches to understanding the history of art as well as collaborative relationships across many different humanistic fields."

This year, 15 scholars in five countries will receive Postdoctoral Fellowships of $35,000 each to pursue topics ranging from the origins of early Buddhist works in Japan to the visual culture of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Since 1985, the Grant Program's Postdoctoral Fellowship program has awarded over $7 million, supporting more than 250 scholars during a crucial early phase of their careers. These 12-month, nonresidential fellowships allow scholars who have earned a doctoral degree within the past six years to undertake independent interpretive research projects in art history.

Collaborative Research Grants totaling $380,000 will allow four teams of scholars to conduct interpretive research projects that offer new interdisciplinary approaches to art historical material. Their projects range from an art historical and materials analysis of colonial South American painting conducted by a Buenos Aires team of scholars and scientists to the digital reconstruction of a 9th-century Javanese temple complex undertaken by a group of scholars from Singapore and England. The Collaborative Research Grants, which have provided over $6 million to support 46 projects over the last 12 years, also support the research and planning of scholarly exhibitions.

In addition to the above categories, the Getty offers a variety of other research grants, both residential and nonresidential. Additional information and application forms for all Getty research grants are available online at www.getty.edu/grants. The next application deadline for all Getty Research Grants is November 1, 2000.

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Getty Grant Program

2000-01 Postdoctoral Fellowships in the History of Art and the Humanities

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